NTP Advisory Board

Dr. David A. Almeida
Dr. Martina Arndt
Dr. Nicole Glen
Dr. John Kucich
Dr. Ryan LaBrozzi
Ms. MaryAnn McKinnon
Ms. Mary Price
Dr. Karen Richardson

College of Education
&
Allied Studies
90 Burrill Avenue
Hart Hall 124
Bridgewater, MA 02325

Phone: 508-531-1347
Fax: 508-531-1771
E-mail: e1gracia@bridgew.edu

NEW TEACHER PARTNERSHIP

NTP invites recent graduates of teacher licensing programs to our campus to develop mentor relationships with experienced teacher leaders from the community and with BSC faculty, before and during their first year of teaching.

NTP is comprised of three distinct components:

• New Teacher Academy (NTA) -- an intensive two-day summer workshop for recent teacher education graduates. The two-day NTA focuses on reviewing some of the pedagogy learned in education classes.
  NTA workshop information
  Register here

• New Teacher Seminars (NTS) -- seminars designed to address the challenges that new teachers may face throughout their first year of teaching. The seminars are conducted several times during the upcoming academic year (dates to be determined). These seminars include brief presentations from college faculty or community-based teacher leaders, followed by extended small group discussions or work sessions to address individual teacher concerns.

• Mentoring Beginning Teachers -- a three credit graduate course for teacher leaders focusing on student teaching supervision, mentoring and professional development. This course provides preparation and support for cooperating teachers who are faculty members of local school districts. Each person who is enrolled in the course has a BSU student teacher in their classroom. Course participants will learn how to plan and conduct pre-observation and post-observation conferences. In addition, cooperating teachers will study the problems and issues facing beginning teachers in culturally diverse classrooms.